THE DRIFT FLEET

[ video | action | OPEN ]

2019-06-13T21:10:36Z

Posted by: tempredmental

Who: Keith, You
Broadcast: Open
Action: Huntress, Planet, Etc... system catch-all
When: While in the current sytem

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So, um... looks like I'm behind the curve again. [Keith chuckled a little darkly, not fully humorous. The rest of the team had gotten their bayards, he'd gotten his Blade... and then bayard later (though it had been the Black one, which, at the time, had made no sense and just threw confusion between him and Shiro). Then, everyone go tiny versions of the Voltron Lions and Shiro got a tiny Atlas. Keith had gotten Kosmo as a puppy. Now, he had the Black Lion... when it was just him and Lance from Team Voltron left.

At least Red was around? Keith shifted the video slightly to show the two tiny robots sitting near each other.]

Everyone, meet a tiny version of the Black Lion of Voltron. Though, without all five of them, we still can't form Voltron, so... sorry. No tiny Voltron.

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{OOC: Open to action prompts just about anywhere as well. Keith will probably keep the Black Lion with him for a while as it's small and easy to steal, and there were issues with that back home for a while where Zarkon kept trying to take it back from Shiro, so... Yeah. Keith's wary. If you want to pre-plan, feel free to PM the journal or hit me up on Plurk at duches77.}

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◘ 4th

2019-06-09T02:10:58Z

Posted by: appletart

Who: Escha and YOU!
Broadcast: Yes - Fleetwide!
Action: Planetside OR the SS Starduck
When: All month!

[ Video ]
[ Oh look, it's the SS Starduck lab! Looks like the resident ~~nerd~~ alchemist has another announcement/offer to make. ]

The technology on this planet is amazing, and I'm finding that a lot of it lines up really well with alchemy! So, I've been doing some research of my own [ to put it lightly ] and found ways to recreate a lot of the items and weapons-enhancements that I regularly made for my friends and colleagues back home!

So, well, I wanted to offer my services here, too! If you have an idea for something really cool you want a weapon to do, as long as you help me get the materials for the synthesis, I'll gladly make it for you!

If you want some examples, Let's see... [ She looks up at the ceiling and ticks off on her fingers as she recalls. ] I've made fire swords, elemental armor-piercing bullets for guns, staves that glow all sorts of colors, bombs with different effects, earrings that help channel magic...

So, um, things like that! And if you have something in mind, I'd love to talk about it and figure it out together! You can send me a message, or just come find me on the Starduck!

( some action prompts if you prefer~ )

(( ooc: if you wanna jump into a thread in the middle of gathering/creating/planning or just picking up your order, that's cool! However you want to do it is fine with me! Hit me up via PM or on plurk (reveris if you wanna talk deets. o/ ))

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Overthinking like teens do

2019-06-01T04:18:07Z

Posted by: sweetlies

Who: Ciel Phantomhive and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Goldstone
When: Afternoon of June 1

[The blue-haired teen is in the kitchen of the Goldstone, a cup of tea steaming in front of him. His communicator is propped up so her can just relax and enjoy his tea. And a small plate of oddly shaped cookies.]

What do you all do when you arrive in a new world in the middle of a year? And yet you left at the end, just shy of your birthday?

[He nibbles at a cookie, sets it down, and takes a sip of tea.]

I arrived in Riverview in July but I left England just two weeks before my fourteenth birthday. So it was sensible to say I was fourteen. I was there a year, so... fifteen. It's been about six months here, would I almost be sixteen now?

[There's a soft sigh, toying with a cookie.] Interesting as all this is, it's a bother to think about it all. I'd be marrying in a year, if I were in England...

[He doesn't seem too concerned about that though and takes a deep breath, smiles, and gestures to the cookies.] There are biscuits here in the kitchen, if anyone on the Goldstone would like. I made too many.

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open audio/action

2019-06-01T02:17:24Z

Posted by: candothat

Who: Pavel Chekov and you
Broadcast: Yes
Action: The Iskaulit or Bloodsport, if you like
When: Now

[voice]

I have a question to ask all of you, if I may--something that I have been thinking about.

[This thinking has nothing to do with the recent broadcast from the Interceptor Fleet. Nope. Not at all.]

What or where, to you, is home?

Is it a place? Is it people? Is it in the universe that you came from, or have you found a new home in your time away? If home is not here, would you return to it if you were granted the opportunity to do so?

What does home even mean?

I ask partially because I'm not certain of the answer for myself. I have thought of many different things as home: a country, a ship, a crew. There have been times, even, when I considered a single person home... but however I defined it, I was certain of it. I knew where it was, and I knew that it was where I belonged. That becomes difficult to maintain, you know, after several years in a place like this--the certainty of belonging, and the sense of home.

So I would like to know how you think of it. Maybe this question is too personal, but I hope that someone might humor me.

[action]

[In the mood for some in-person interaction? Pavel can be found in his usual haunts on the Iskaulit: in the library, jogging in the ship's more open areas, working (or drinking) at the Space Bar. Or come across him on the Bloodsport. That's where his quarters and his cat are, after all!]

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[video | action]

2019-05-15T20:23:23Z

Posted by: scalpelofmarmora

Who: Ulaz and you!
Broadcast: Fleet wide
Action: Planet side and Blameless
When: While on planet

Broadcast
[Ulaz has found the flouds. There certainly are a lot of them where he had ended up while exploring. As he's standing there, one can barely see the forest through the ... flouds]

Interesting creatures. I don't know that I have ever seen something quite like this before.

[One of the flouds noses into frame and makes a bleat at him. He reaches out to pet it, a faint smile on his face at how happy it seems to make the creature]

Does anyone know what these are?

Action
[The underground city was interesting, but in the end it was far too much for Ulaz so he had taken to going out in the jungle and exploring. Forget the dinosaurs and other creatures that might want to eat others. He takes that as practice in avoiding attacks.

He can also be found on the Blameless, going about his normal assignments or getting a cup of tea in the dining room. It still... doesn't feel quite right on the ship. Like something is missing]

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video + action

2019-04-13T03:28:13Z

Posted by: the_tailor

Who: Lance and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Huntress, Iskaulit
When: Now through the rest of the drift period

( Nyan? )

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B'lire Game-wide Mingle

2019-03-13T18:51:52Z

Posted by: passingthrough

Who: Everyone
Broadcast: Nah!
Action: B'lire in the Drisdim-3 System
When: March 11 to April 5

[Live that Gaston lifestyle, but maybe less French.]

(OOC: System Info.)

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[Video/Action] Welcome to Walküre World~!

2019-03-10T07:37:19Z

Posted by: ikenai

Who: Mikumo Guynemer and you! (Yes, even you!)
Broadcast: Oh yes
Action: Red Fish
When: 3/9

Action the Red Fish

[Finding herself on a strange ship would probably worry Mikumo, but... she's not really that kind of girl. Her life is just not normal. Besides, she has a feeling that she knows where she is. Sort of.

It's not either of the ships she was on the first time she was here, nor is it the big ship she spent a few days on before being moved. It's new, but the confetti and the faux-pudding cups are a clue. The idol just shakes her hair free of the brightly colored paper and starts to look around the ship.]

Hm, it looks as if someone let Messer decorate the walls. How interesting.

[As she walks down the halls, she trails a hand down the walls. Nothing comes away, but that doesn't mean she isn't a bit surprised.

She stops at a mess of paper that looks as if it is telling some secret to the many little dials around the ship and points when she sees one that leads to the residences.]

My, my. This would make visiting others so much easier.

Video

[Mikumo eventually ends up in her private room on the ship, the Red Fish and she pulls out her communicator. She waggles her fingers playfully before blowing a kiss at the screen.]

Well, hello, people of the Fleet. It's so lovely to be back here. Tell me, have I missed any venues? I see about this memory sharing thing that's happened again, but I suppose it's a good thing I missed that. I don't have many to share with you.

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Huntress Mingle!

2019-03-06T07:03:38Z

Posted by: tempredmental

Who: Huntress Crew and Visitors (so anyone)
Broadcast: Nope
Action: Around the Huntress
When: After Calibrations and Marsiva attack.

[GO FORTH AND MINGLE]

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Arrival time

2019-03-04T03:36:37Z

Posted by: gotitmmrizd

Who: Lea and YOU
Broadcast: Yes
Action: On the Tourist
When: After calibrations/a few days after

Broadcast

[After waking up in what is apparently his new room, he spends only enough time to figure out if he's some sort of prisoner before he decides he can just sort of ask people what is up here. Because yeah he's gotten some explanations but it's one thing to show up right when there's dream rooms and then suddenly arriving here. Like nothing happened.

And so there's a red head on the screen.]

Hey, so should I be expecting the waking up in different places every few days thing to happen all the time? Because that's one I can do without. Weird though it might be I like having a consistent place to sleep in.

[He shrugs and smiles.]

Anyway, the name's Lea. Looks like I'm stuck here now and I got assigned to be on the Tourist.

[He fishes some extra confetti out of his hair.]

Nice greeting though. Buuuuut I'm not volunteering for clean up.

Tourist

[And then it's time for him to make himself familiar with his new ship. He's been on ships in the past when visiting other worlds but this one has a different layout. Almost like he's in some kind of maze based on how cramped it feels. Though he appreciates the high ceilings. That's a bonus when you're tall.

But expect him to poke his head in basically every room at least once. You can't get to know a place if you don't at least see what's in a room, you know. And maybe he's a bit nosy too. It's a bad habit of his, one he's never really bothered to break.

Just don't mind that he looks almost suspicious being a guy in a long black trench coat though. He's fine. Really.]

Iskaulit

[Honestly the same happens with Iskaulit. If he sees a door then he pokes his nose in. Though in this case it's more because he's finding that there's so much going on that it's easier to become lost. Sure he could focus the whole attack stuff he remembers going on but honestly? He's going to keep himself out of trouble until he knows what is going on. That world order stuff that he's been learning about. He doesn't know what goes on with this one yet and he's been disarmed.

It's crazy.

But yeah. He's a little lost on such a big ship and so the best way to get unlost is to start memorizing landmarks. Shipmarks in this case. So please don't mind him as he goes poking his nose around here too. He's just curious.]

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dreams in digital

2019-01-21T03:26:58Z

Posted by: thespaceopera

[ Calibration Rooms ]
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(last updated: 1/21/19)

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OPEN | It's beginning to look at lot like Niflheim

2018-12-11T22:18:45Z

Posted by: this_loser

Who: Prompto and You
Broadcast: No
Action: Yes, planetside
When: Now

Hunting

[A stay in the castle is how much?

Time to find a job! Mining is right out. Dark, enclosed spaces? No thank you. But hunting he can do. He has experience and a good aim. And for once he's focused and careful, chatter kept to a minimum.]

Between the trees. See it?

[It's big and furry and topped with massive antlers. He'd rather take its picture. Maybe he can do both?]

Gift Shopping

[He's got a list, and he's checking it twice. Three times. Four times. And he's taking up the aisle of one of the shops with his indecision and pacing.

The paper looks like it's been crumpled up and then smoothed out again - maybe more than once. If someone happens to sneak a glance at it, it's got various names jotted down, and next to most of them many question marks and exclamation points.

It shouldn't be this hard, should it?]

Wildcard

[Want something else? Go for it or hmu on plurk. Sure bet he'll be running all over with his camera.]

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[ Open ] No, I Don't Want to Build a Snowman

2018-12-09T05:39:23Z

Posted by: universal_charm

Who: Jim Kirk & You!
Broadcast: No
Action: Yes, Planetside
When: All Month Long

( Let It Snow, Let It Snow... )

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002 In Which Vampires are Silly

2018-12-08T02:20:17Z

Posted by: eternallyoutrageous

Who: Akeldama and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Planet side and Iskaulit
When: throughout December

Iskaulit library - actually more in late November ~~shh~~
( more under cut )

Planet side - shopping!
( more under cut )

Open Broadcast
[Of course here is Lord Akeldama and he has to make this a post. Why? Because he's showing off in a way. So he'd seen all of this about "ugly Christmas sweaters" which why would someone do that to themselves. But he had found something else and he was playing this off as if it is completely normal.

So Lord Akeldama is dressed in dark brown trousers, a sage green jacket, a rose gold cravat, and this vest as if it were a waistcoat. Nothing odd to see here, just a vampire in an ugly Christmas vest...]

This truly is a remarkable place. It has been so long since I've had the chance to visit a city such as this.

So what have been your favorite things to do here? I would like to know what all I have missed thus far.

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[Mingle]

2018-12-03T21:52:03Z

Posted by: padadin

Who: EVERYONE! This is a mingle!
Broadcast: Possibly!
Action: Yes, up to the players
When: Mostly on the 25th but also up to each player!

GIFT EXCHANGE MINGLE

This is usually done as a meme, but I thought I could make it an actual thing in case anyone wants some nice threads out of it. The rules are simple: make a top level with your character's Xmas gift list for their friends! Then go around and react to what others have gotten for yours. You can make it an action thread and play out the actual giving, or a text thread to say thank you, or just some narration to show how the character feels about their gift... the sky is the limit, do whatever you want with your threads!

Posting this early so people have time to thread it out before the holidays come, and to have time to go google-shopping.

Also reminder that for system shenanigans we have a mingle over here! Never too late to tag into that too.

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Sometimes family is what you make... (Closed)

2018-12-01T08:03:09Z

Posted by: dandyofawolf

Who: Biffy and Lance
Broadcast: Partially and privately
Action: Yes at Biffy's shop
When: Today!

[Well he certainly has quite a bit of work to finish up for this wedding on Christmas and he knows he couldn't possibly do it without the help of Lance. For that reason he calls him up while he's got some down time in his shop. Might as well. Besides, he does so love talking to the young man who he feels very much a brotherly love for.

So with a cup of tea in hand, he sits down and calls him up, smiling warmly when Lance picks up.]

Good evening, Lance. Do you have a moment to discuss my wedding further?

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[ action ]

2018-11-28T22:18:27Z

Posted by: tempredmental

Who: Keith, OPEN
Broadcast: No
Action: Huntress, Iskaulit, open to other ideas!
When: Kind of a system catch-all post-update, starting Nov 26

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( shenanigans )

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[This is probably the only time Keith's come back from a trip home or a impromptu coma in a relatively good mood. Granted, he wasn't exactly bouncing around the Huntress or the Iskaulit like it was the BEST DAY EVER, but he didn't seem as 'emo' as usual.

He could be found at the gym, the obstacle course, getting food, in the Voltron team "Lion's Den", doing his turn at the helm on the Huntress... basically being himself, but less depressed and angsty.]

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( klangst )

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{OOC: Hit me up on plurk duches77 or PM my journal if you want to try something specific. I'm open! Also! This is now Keith post season 7, so poke me if you want me to avoid spoilers!}

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video

2018-11-21T03:57:29Z

Posted by: the_tailor

[At the moment, Lance is looking oh so appealing for the camera. Fresh faced and with his adorable pet otter perched on his shoulder, he gives a wave.]

Hey, everyone! So, uh, this here broadcast is actually more for the fans watching than the rest of you. But I guess if you want to hear me answer some fanmail, by all means. I've gotten bits and pieces over the month, but I figured I might as well do a megapost and answer a whole bunch at once.

( Sometimes fame has its drawbacks )

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closed

2018-11-20T06:42:09Z

Posted by: itsyagirl

Who: Veronica and Lance
Broadcast: No
Action: S.S. Huntress
When: backdated to Nov 10

[Lance has walked Veronica through the process of transferring ships, and she knows what's supposed to happen, but it's still a bit of a shock to suddenly be standing on the bridge of a spaceship unlike any other she's seen before. Add in the confetti and chocolate...gloop? And she's blinking in confusion and surprise at the little bowl in her hands.

Though that isn't about to stop her from tentatively taking a bite.

And you know what, it's certainly better than the rations the Garrison has been just barely getting by on. Veronica just sort of plops down on the floor with her chocolate, taking small bites and savoring the sweetness. The texture is strange, but the taste makes up for it.

She'll call Lance once she's done eating.]

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Fanmail Kiosk Strikes Again

2018-11-08T22:23:49Z

Posted by: scalpelofmarmora

Who: Ulaz and you!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: anyone who might be on the Blameless
When: today

( insanity inside )

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001 video and action

2018-11-03T21:49:11Z

Posted by: eternallyoutrageous

Who: Akeldama and you!
Broadcast: Yep!
Action: Marsiva, First Breath, and Iskaulit
When: Beginning of November

Marsiva
[Lord Akeldama had woken not long before. He didn't feel quite like himself. He couldn't tell what was doing it more: the strange pain in the back of his head or the fact that he had essentially been ripped from his territory.

It was... different still somehow than it normally would have been.

He didn't necessarily feel like trying out this new gadget they had been given just yet so he stood by the large window looking into the blackness of space. He had always looked at it from the ground. This is what it looked like up close]

First Breath
[All of this moving around was not doing the vampire any good. Didn't they know that a vampire needed his territory in order to be settled. First one ship and now another. This was most inconvenient.

Hopefully, the moving between ships had stopped. He needed a few days to settle in, for his head to accept this ship has "his territory". He'd do better once that happens.

However, this other ship seemed to be more to his liking. The style wasn't quite what he'd do with his own house, but it was close enough and he wasn't going to scoff at it. So much better than that other ship.

So rather sitting alone in that tiny room they called a cabin, Lord Akeldama made his way to kitchen, sitting quietly by himself for the moment]

Isakulit
[Finally feeling more the thing, Lord Akeldama decided to go exploring this ship called "the Iskaulit". It certainly looked like there was more space there than on the other ships. He was right about that and was quite happy to go exploring, to see what sort of spaces there were available to the Fleeters.

He's probably not too subtle, dressed in plum colored evening jacket, gold waistcoat, high heeled boots, and a cravat of a different shade of purple that still seemed to compliment both the waistcoat and the jacket]

Broadcast
[Lord Akeldama has found himself a rather pleasing looking spot to make his post. It wouldn't do to have it look poorly behind him after]

Good afternoon, fellow passengers of this thing called "the Fleet". As I understand it, we are all trapped this positively wonderful place as part of a farce. Am I correct in this assessment? Is there anything else that I should know?

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broadcast intro and action

2018-11-03T01:51:45Z

Posted by: itsyagirl

Who: Veronica
Broadcast: open network
Action: Iskaulit and Blue Fish
When: network - friday. action - saturday

Broadcast / Action to anyone on the Marsiva
[Veronica wakes with a distinct feeling of wrongness. The camera zooms in as blue eyes open, a frown already on her face. She sits up slowly, the covers falling off and pooling at her hips to reveal she's in standard Garrison uniform, the typical attire of an officer. Rubbing at her face, she looks to the side to spot her glasses and quickly jams them on.

Her frown deepens.] Where...am I...?

[Veronica slides out of bed, to find her shoes tucked neatly beside the bed. Frowning at them, she goes barefoot for now, instead running down the hallway and feeling cold metal under her feet.]

Hello? Is anyone there?

Action - Iskaulit & Blue Fish
[Veronica can be found wandering the Iskaulit and the S.S. Blue Fish restlessly. She's a hot mess of emotions, unsure how to deal with everything that is going on right now, and her first priority is just to become familiar with her surroundings. Most everything she would be interested in is on the Iskaulit, it seems, so this is where she starts.

She'll most often be pacing, but if you're lucky, you might catch her frowning and poking at her communicator, trying to make it function in some way like what she's used to. She wants more information, maybe this can help.]

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[ video | action ]

2018-10-23T18:48:43Z

Posted by: tempredmental

Who: Keith, open to anyone (party section is open to positive CR by invite from Shiro and/or Lance who got the list from Keith, but negative CR can crash if you're willing to deal with IC fallout from annoyed and protective Voltrons and friends... LOL / party section is also mingle style and will have a special header in the comments, so feel free to mingle and threadjack each other)
Broadcast: yes, video
Action: Huntress, planetside (including birthday camping trip near Alkaline Lake), open to coming to visit other ships if wanted or random encounters on the Iskaulit
When: Mostly Oct 23! This is his b-day post and late-October/early-November catch-all.

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( Video Broadcast )

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( Huntress Cargo Bay )

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( Alkaline Lake B-day Party Mingle )

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{OOC: Wildcard option! Hit me up on plurk at duches77 or PM my journal here if you have ideas that aren't in the post and want to try something else and plot it out, but it's not necessary. I'm open! You don't have to stick with a header if you think something doesn't fit! I can roll with the punches. Have fun!}

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[text]

2018-09-26T03:31:20Z

Posted by: wallcrawler

Who: the Webhead
Broadcast: Text only (at least at first, it might change)
Action: If anyone wants to join him at the obstacle course, sure
When: [backdated] 9/23

Hey, so, weird question: any of you engineering, tech-savvy types looking for a project?

Because apparently there's a sweet obstacle course on that big mega-mall of a ship following us around, but you gotta set everything up by hand. Well, almost everything. Tennis ball cannons seem to work pretty well as-is, and I am totally fine having something shot at me that isn't covered in spikes, or you know, explosive.

But it kinda takes the fun out of running the gauntlet with this sorta thing if you're the one building it, and especially if nothing in it ever changes mid-run to make things interesting.

[As for why he's not running his mouth off about this and resorting to texting everyone, well... his augment decided its glitch of choice would be completely muting him for a few days. Then again, while he might hate it, some people might actually appreciate that.]

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broadcast | video

2018-09-26T01:05:37Z

Posted by: theirondragon

Who: The Iron Bull and EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Hell yes!
Action: If you want to happen upon him at space bar, which is where he's making this broadcast, you know what? Go right ahead!
When: Mid-Day; Today like earlier today :)

[Those who tune in to the network right about now are greated by the Bull's smiling face. It's his customer service face, but nobody besides Cyril and Leilani have ever hired his guy around here, so they're probably the only ones who realize that. He's got a full mug of ale sitting beside him and...a...notebook?]

Hey, everybody, and...uh, you guys at home too, I guess. [He clears his throat.] Okay, so we all know that we're being recorded to entertain people, right? And we all agree the Atroma are dicks, but did you know the people who watch us can send us letters? There's this how little kiosk thing here on the Iskaulit, and some people sent me some stuff.

[He rolls his shoulders in a shrug.] I mean, it's creepy, shit yeah, it's creepy, but it's sort of better, seeing people say stuff about what they're seeing on this...uh, show thing. They're real people, you know, and uh...a lot like fans of other stuff. Anyway, I was gonna respond to some stuff, maybe make them feel like we care too, you know? I don't know, it sounded good in my head, anyway.

[He picks up the notebook and clears this throat before reading this first one. Bull's not usually a man who knows shame, and he's not exactly bashful about this one, it just makes him a little uncomfortable.]

( It got kinda long... )

[He pushes the notebook aside, finishes his beer and waves someone over for another before taking a breath.] So, that's it. If you want more, write more in, I guess. [And he makes a wave at the camera.] Talk to you later.

(OOC: Thanks to everybody who sent some fanmail his way!)

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